Coastal cities inundated, farming regions parched, ocean currents
... Global warming might do more for the North, however, than just opening up new land. Temperatures are rising on average, but when are they rising? Daytime? Nighttime? Winter? Summer? One fear about artificially triggered climate change has been that global warming would lead to scorching summer-afte ...
... Global warming might do more for the North, however, than just opening up new land. Temperatures are rising on average, but when are they rising? Daytime? Nighttime? Winter? Summer? One fear about artificially triggered climate change has been that global warming would lead to scorching summer-afte ...
Climate change and infectious disease
... “change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods” UN Convention on Climate Change ...
... “change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods” UN Convention on Climate Change ...
Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals
... Survival in a warmer climate. Data from diverse terrestrial on contemporary temperate-zone ectotherms suggest that tropical species living in stable aseainsects are mixed: Some species sonal climates, such as the Amazonian lizard Enyalioides palpebralis (top inset), have narrower thermal tolerances ...
... Survival in a warmer climate. Data from diverse terrestrial on contemporary temperate-zone ectotherms suggest that tropical species living in stable aseainsects are mixed: Some species sonal climates, such as the Amazonian lizard Enyalioides palpebralis (top inset), have narrower thermal tolerances ...
Climate Change and Alaskan Wetlands
... Climate change is not just a theoretical concept or model. It's real--and Alaskans are witnessing its effects in their communities. A recent opinion poll showed that most Alaskans believe global warming is already causing or accelerating the loss of sea ice (83%) melting permafrost (82%), eroding co ...
... Climate change is not just a theoretical concept or model. It's real--and Alaskans are witnessing its effects in their communities. A recent opinion poll showed that most Alaskans believe global warming is already causing or accelerating the loss of sea ice (83%) melting permafrost (82%), eroding co ...
Earth`s climate change
... The purpose of this investigation is for students to realize that climate change does occur naturally but also the activities of human do have an impact. I want the students to be able to form their own opinions of climate change and global warming. Hopefully through this investigation it will give ...
... The purpose of this investigation is for students to realize that climate change does occur naturally but also the activities of human do have an impact. I want the students to be able to form their own opinions of climate change and global warming. Hopefully through this investigation it will give ...
Critical Thinking (1)
... the evidence. Is the evidence correct? What reasons do we have for trusting the evidence? Are the claims backed up with evidence that can stand up to skepticism. Let's take a global warming example of the polar bears. One scientist questioned the idea that the polar bears were drowning because of gl ...
... the evidence. Is the evidence correct? What reasons do we have for trusting the evidence? Are the claims backed up with evidence that can stand up to skepticism. Let's take a global warming example of the polar bears. One scientist questioned the idea that the polar bears were drowning because of gl ...
CarbonTradingCrisis.v.1.7
... This figure shows historical CO2 (right axis) and reconstructed temperature (as a difference from the mean temperature for the last 100 years) records based on Antarctic ice cores, providing data for the last 800,000 years. CarbonTradingCrisis.v.1.7 ...
... This figure shows historical CO2 (right axis) and reconstructed temperature (as a difference from the mean temperature for the last 100 years) records based on Antarctic ice cores, providing data for the last 800,000 years. CarbonTradingCrisis.v.1.7 ...
Slide 1
... • Ongoing variability and extremes are the main drivers of current adaptation to climate, links between variability and longer-term change give these experiences a future dimension. ...
... • Ongoing variability and extremes are the main drivers of current adaptation to climate, links between variability and longer-term change give these experiences a future dimension. ...
Temporal and Spatial Variations of Moist Enthalpy in the U.S.
... the specific humidity. The H is the moist enthalpy or moist static energy (J kg-1). The Te is the surface equivalent temperature, which will better represent surface air heat content. The statistical significance of regional temporal trends and individual station trends were evaluated using an adjus ...
... the specific humidity. The H is the moist enthalpy or moist static energy (J kg-1). The Te is the surface equivalent temperature, which will better represent surface air heat content. The statistical significance of regional temporal trends and individual station trends were evaluated using an adjus ...
Climate Control and Ozone Depletion
... 1988-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 90–99% likely that lower atmosphere is warming 1906–2005: Ave. temp increased about 0.74˚C (1.3˚F) 1970–2005: Annual greenhouse emissions up 70% Past 50 years: Arctic temp rising almost twice as fast as the rest of the earth Melting of glaciers a ...
... 1988-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 90–99% likely that lower atmosphere is warming 1906–2005: Ave. temp increased about 0.74˚C (1.3˚F) 1970–2005: Annual greenhouse emissions up 70% Past 50 years: Arctic temp rising almost twice as fast as the rest of the earth Melting of glaciers a ...
Reconsidering the Climate Change Act
... 1. However, as your editorial acknowledges, neither recent controversies, nor the recent cold weather, negate the consensus among scientists: something unprecedented is now happening. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising and climate change is occurring, both due to human a ...
... 1. However, as your editorial acknowledges, neither recent controversies, nor the recent cold weather, negate the consensus among scientists: something unprecedented is now happening. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising and climate change is occurring, both due to human a ...
PPT File - Regional Climate Modeling Laboratory
... – Possible changed seasonality – Possible changed diurnal patterns -> changes in soil moisture ...
... – Possible changed seasonality – Possible changed diurnal patterns -> changes in soil moisture ...
Understanding Global Warming through - SERC
... if understanding of it allowed us to analyze their messages about global warning to see if they carry truth or fall into the category of enlisting us into supporting their causes? When receiving two conflicting messages on a polarizing issue, how do we know what to believe? One way is to go to the p ...
... if understanding of it allowed us to analyze their messages about global warning to see if they carry truth or fall into the category of enlisting us into supporting their causes? When receiving two conflicting messages on a polarizing issue, how do we know what to believe? One way is to go to the p ...
Using change through time to evaluate global warming.
... if understanding of it allowed us to analyze their messages about global warning to see if they carry truth or fall into the category of enlisting us into supporting their causes? When receiving two conflicting messages on a polarizing issue, how do we know what to believe? One way is to go to the p ...
... if understanding of it allowed us to analyze their messages about global warning to see if they carry truth or fall into the category of enlisting us into supporting their causes? When receiving two conflicting messages on a polarizing issue, how do we know what to believe? One way is to go to the p ...
Proxy Climate Data
... Little Ice Age = 1350 A.D. – 1850 A.D. (N.H. temperature was lower by 0.5°C, alpine glaciers increased; few sunspots, low solar output) ...
... Little Ice Age = 1350 A.D. – 1850 A.D. (N.H. temperature was lower by 0.5°C, alpine glaciers increased; few sunspots, low solar output) ...
Urban Planning: How to live under climate change in Bangkok
... Increasing in the Earth’s average temperature by approximately 0.74oC over the past century Shrinking of mountain glaciers Lengthening of mid- to high-latitude growing seasons Changes in precipitation patterns and ocean currents Increasing frequency and intensity of heat waves, storms floo ...
... Increasing in the Earth’s average temperature by approximately 0.74oC over the past century Shrinking of mountain glaciers Lengthening of mid- to high-latitude growing seasons Changes in precipitation patterns and ocean currents Increasing frequency and intensity of heat waves, storms floo ...
Cool response to Durban compromise
... fairing better, he went on to say: “I am all for scientific reviews and assessments, and I think the multi-model comparisons reviewed by the IPCC have been especially useful. However, it is not clear how much additional benefit there is to having a huge bureaucratic scientific review effort under Un ...
... fairing better, he went on to say: “I am all for scientific reviews and assessments, and I think the multi-model comparisons reviewed by the IPCC have been especially useful. However, it is not clear how much additional benefit there is to having a huge bureaucratic scientific review effort under Un ...
Presentation
... Great year-to-year variability in California precipitation Southern California Coast area average shown here from Western Regional Climate Center ...
... Great year-to-year variability in California precipitation Southern California Coast area average shown here from Western Regional Climate Center ...
18.7 Greenhouse gases and global warming
... are causing an increase in the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is produced by the burning of fossil fuels in motor vehicles and power stations (to make electricity), and in many industrial processes especially the manufacture of iron, steel and cement. Deforestation by burning and felling tr ...
... are causing an increase in the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is produced by the burning of fossil fuels in motor vehicles and power stations (to make electricity), and in many industrial processes especially the manufacture of iron, steel and cement. Deforestation by burning and felling tr ...
Heavy Rainfall and Increased Flooding Risk: Global Warming`s
... levees failed, and damages soared to an estimated $12 to 16 billion.13 A mere 15 years later, history is repeating itself in the Midwest as the rainswollen Cedar, Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and their tributaries top their banks and levees, leaving hundreds of thousands of people displ ...
... levees failed, and damages soared to an estimated $12 to 16 billion.13 A mere 15 years later, history is repeating itself in the Midwest as the rainswollen Cedar, Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and their tributaries top their banks and levees, leaving hundreds of thousands of people displ ...
Global warming hiatus
A global warming hiatus, also sometimes referred to as a global warming pause or a global warming slowdown, is a period of relatively little change in globally averaged surface temperatures. In the current episode of global warming many such periods are evident in the surface temperature record, along with robust evidence of the long term warming trend.The exceptionally warm El Niño year of 1998 was an outlier from the continuing temperature trend, and so gave the appearance of a hiatus: by January 2006 assertions had been made that this showed that global warming had stopped. A 2009 study showed that decades without warming were not exceptional, and in 2011 a study showed that if allowances were made for known variability, the rising temperature trend continued unabated. There was increased public interest in 2013 in the run-up to publication of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, and despite concerns that a 15-year period was too short to determine a meaningful trend, the IPCC included a section on a hiatus, which it defined as a much smaller increasing linear trend over the 15 years from 1998 to 2012, than over the 60 years from 1951 to 2012. Various studies examined possible causes of the short term slowdown. Even though the overall climate system had continued to accumulate energy due to Earth's positive energy budget, the available temperature readings at the earth's surface indicated slower rates of increase in surface warming than in the prior decade. Since measurements at the top of the atmosphere show that Earth is receiving more energy than it is radiating back into space, the retained energy should be producing warming in at least one of the five parts of Earth's climate system.A July 2015 paper on the updated NOAA dataset cast doubt on the existence of this supposed hiatus, and found no indication of a slowdown. This analysis incorporated the latest corrections for known biases in ocean temperature measurements, and new land temperature data. Scientists working on other datasets welcomed this study, though the view was expressed that the short term warming trend had been slower than in previous periods of the same length.